Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 12, 1993 TAG: 9305120325
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C2 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: MARION LENGTH: Short
OBIT KILLINGER, JOHN DAVID, ("BILL")
KILLINGER, John David, ("Bill"), 76, of Marion, died Monday, May 10, 1993
in Smyth County Community Hospital. He was born on a frosty Saturday morning,
October 7, 1916 (Saturday's child works hard for a living) at the family farm
on Route 16 South (opposite the state fish hatchery). He was the first son of
Mr. George Glenn and Edith Poole Killinger and was educated in the Marion
schools, Marion College, Roanoke College and the National Dry Cleaning
Institute. He served in the U.S. Navy for four years, owned and operated
Service Dry Cleaners for 35 years. He was a life long member of Ebenezer
Lutheran Church. He was in the Boy Scouts for many years and was a member and
former president of the Kiwanis Club of Marion. He was also a member and
former president of the Chamber of Commerce and Better Business Bureau and a
member of V.F.W. He married Bernice Ritchie in 1946 and had one daughter, Ms.
Rebecca Killinger Allen of Charlotte, N.C. His two granddaughters are Miss
Wendy and Miss Bryna Allen. He has one brother, Dr. George Poole Killinger,
four nephews and a niece. Funeral services will be conducted by Pastor James
H. Bangle on Thursday, May 13, 1993 at 11 a.m. at Seaver-Brown Chapel which
was the site where Service Dry Cleaners stood from 1942 to 1985. Burial will
follow in Round Hill Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to
the Arthritis Foundation, 4240 Old Cave Spring Road, SW, Roanoke, VA 24018 or
the the Memorial Fund of Ebenezer Lutheran Church, 222 West Main, Street,
Marion, Va. 24354. The family will receive friends Wednesday evening from 7
until 9 at Seaver-Brown Chapel.
by CNB